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Michael Shermer

@michaelshermer · Santa Barbara, CA · joined 24 Apr 2009

On UAP Science Advisory Council. Opinions my own. Skeptic mag. https://t.co/i81i0rp1HP | Host Michael Shermer Show | Author TRUTH: https://t.co/0FvkBGFl26

250 486Followers
271Following
26 691Posts total
3.9MViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

10 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. reaches fewer people than peers, but engages them much harder.

Median views5 544this account12 273median for 100K–1M
Reach, %2.21%this account3.89%median for 100K–1M
Engagement, %3.71%this account1.25%median for 100K–1M
MetricThis accountMedian for 100K–1MRatio
Median views per post5 54412 2730.45×
Reach (views ÷ followers)2.21%3.89%0.57×
Engagement rate3.71%1.25%2.97×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

11K18 Aug
115.5K2 Sep
159.5K3 Sep
4.3K
2.8K
3.5M
6.8K
3.5K
3.2K
3.3K

Last 10 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.42%18 Aug
4.52%2 Sep
1.86%3 Sep
3.65%
3.78%
0.67%
4.95%
1.21%
4.09%
4.23%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.25%.

What the audience does

Likes82.6%27 688 in total
Reposts11.1%3 707 in total
Replies3.6%1 207 in total
Quotes0.5%166 in total
Bookmarks2.3%755 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

Followers by day

3 Sep

Daily snapshots since 03 Sep 2026; the dashed line is the starting count.

Latest posts

Breaking news from the frontiers of physics and cosmology… https://t.co/uj0B57GUsP 3.3K views · 122 likes · 16 reposts · 1 replies 03 Sep 2026 @michaelshermer had to deal with Nature editors a year or two ago. They were among the dumbest ive come across, and statistically illiterate. Stuart Buck wrote about it in the link below. I had a paper in a Nature journal that reviewers said to publish in 2025. Their DEI Editor 3.2K views · 116 likes · 14 reposts · 1 replies 03 Sep 2026 Defend the West Conference. It's online and free for anyone to watch all our lectures. https://t.co/6Fb4GeXsRG 3.5K views · 34 likes · 6 reposts · 2 replies 03 Sep 2026 That's the problem @elonmusk Much of science has shifted from the search for truth to social activism. The North Star must always be the truth. 6.8K views · 291 likes · 26 reposts · 18 replies 03 Sep 2026 It is indeed a disgrace. Those publications have an obligation to adhere to the truth and yet have become woke propaganda outlets. 3.5M views · 20K likes · 2.5K reposts · 958 replies 03 Sep 2026 @michaelshermer I remember when Scientific American went woke, fired the whole hard sciences editorial staff and brought in the DEI crowd that seemed to demand every article answer to a societal inequity. Nature and the Economist felt like the last resort for fact. Now what? Scie 2.8K views · 97 likes · 9 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 @michaelshermer It’s corrupting minds too https://t.co/mviBlVkhCK 4.3K views · 148 likes · 8 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 Wokeness is corrupting science from within. Nature went woke years ago with their support of trans pseudoscience (sex is binary, not a spectrum) and now they think the death of Jason Arday sends a wake-up to us: yeah, stop lying. 159.5K views · 2.6K likes · 262 reposts · 68 replies 03 Sep 2026 Seeing lots of surprised reactions to the absurd Nature editorial on Jason Arday. Frankly, I'm surprised people are surprised. Nature has been totally captured by wokeness for a while now. I've been trying to call attention to this for nearly a decade. There are no serious https 115.5K views · 4.2K likes · 819 reposts · 153 replies 02 Sep 2026 Is There a Second Arrow of Time? My conversation with geoscientist Robert Hazen & astrobiologist Michael Wong based on their new book in which they propose a new law of nature: https://t.co/frm2Ofzqrq 11K views · 36 likes · 4 reposts · 6 replies 18 Aug 2026

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